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(Most of the following info are gathered from a Taiwan VIVO forum.)
Fact #1: TV@nywhere uses CX23881 chipset (in fact it may even be Cx23881-17, an earlier version of CX23881, rather than the later version CX23881-27). Look at your own card and see for yourself.
Fact #2: CX23881 does NOT support certain format of broadcast stereo.
Check this Conexant webpage
http://www.conexant.com/products/techdocs_detail.jsp?id=10 and read this pdf file
http://www.conexant.com/servlets/DownloadServlet/101550b.pdf?FileId=701 (760 kB size)
From the table, for broadcast audio CX23880 supports "BTSC dbx, NICAM, A2, EIAJ, FM", but Cx23881 only supports "NICAM, A2, FM".
CONCLUSION: If broadcast audio in your area uses dbx (and I think North America uses dbx stereo), then you are out of luck - TV@nywhere, in its present incarnation of using CX23881, does NOT support dbx stereo or SAP. It is NOT a driver issue, but a hardware/chipset thingy. So don't expect future driver to fix it. Come to think of it I suspect that is why (for those US users) the new driver has the stereo option greyed out - MSI is just quietly acknowledging this function is simply not supported!
Additional info
1) Words have it that initiallly MSI planned to use CX23880 chipset (which has more features) but later they changed the design. In fact some Taiwan buyers discovered, much to their chagrin, the labels on their boxes show "CX23880" but the cards inside contain CX23881 chipset!
2) MSI website says TV@nywhere has "CX23881/883". For those who still consider buying this newer generation of 10 bits ADC chipset AND want dbx stereo, you may want to wait for MSI to release CX23883 version which does support this feature. (http://www.conexant.com/servlets/DownloadServlet/102055b.pdf?FileId=981)
Alternatively for NTSC users, you might consider Asus new tuner card using CX23880 chip.
http://www.asus.com.tw/vga/tvtuner/features.htm
3) Another CX2388x card is from Prolink (PlayTV HD), but it too uses CX23881 chipset like TV@nywhere.
Hope this help to clarify things and save some of you the annoyance of waiting and hoping in vain something (driver that support dbx stereo) that has never been there.
Fact #1: TV@nywhere uses CX23881 chipset (in fact it may even be Cx23881-17, an earlier version of CX23881, rather than the later version CX23881-27). Look at your own card and see for yourself.
Fact #2: CX23881 does NOT support certain format of broadcast stereo.
Check this Conexant webpage
http://www.conexant.com/products/techdocs_detail.jsp?id=10 and read this pdf file
http://www.conexant.com/servlets/DownloadServlet/101550b.pdf?FileId=701 (760 kB size)
From the table, for broadcast audio CX23880 supports "BTSC dbx, NICAM, A2, EIAJ, FM", but Cx23881 only supports "NICAM, A2, FM".
CONCLUSION: If broadcast audio in your area uses dbx (and I think North America uses dbx stereo), then you are out of luck - TV@nywhere, in its present incarnation of using CX23881, does NOT support dbx stereo or SAP. It is NOT a driver issue, but a hardware/chipset thingy. So don't expect future driver to fix it. Come to think of it I suspect that is why (for those US users) the new driver has the stereo option greyed out - MSI is just quietly acknowledging this function is simply not supported!
Additional info
1) Words have it that initiallly MSI planned to use CX23880 chipset (which has more features) but later they changed the design. In fact some Taiwan buyers discovered, much to their chagrin, the labels on their boxes show "CX23880" but the cards inside contain CX23881 chipset!
2) MSI website says TV@nywhere has "CX23881/883". For those who still consider buying this newer generation of 10 bits ADC chipset AND want dbx stereo, you may want to wait for MSI to release CX23883 version which does support this feature. (http://www.conexant.com/servlets/DownloadServlet/102055b.pdf?FileId=981)
Alternatively for NTSC users, you might consider Asus new tuner card using CX23880 chip.
http://www.asus.com.tw/vga/tvtuner/features.htm
3) Another CX2388x card is from Prolink (PlayTV HD), but it too uses CX23881 chipset like TV@nywhere.
Hope this help to clarify things and save some of you the annoyance of waiting and hoping in vain something (driver that support dbx stereo) that has never been there.
